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Originally Posted by StudentoReptile
I prefer live ones.
And no, Google is NOT okay, even you "know" what you're looking before. I can even insert the full taxonomic name in the search field, and get varied results. By putting in a particular name (Ex: mud snake), you are skewing the results in your favor because every image that comes up will be tagged as mud snake. So any image you look at (if you are not intelligent), if you find an image that matches the appearance of your snake in question, you will automatically assume that identity is correct. Often it is not.
That is why it better to refer to an accurate field guide than to rely on what you "think" you know what the animal is, and let Google "rationalize" your judgment.
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You can insert the full taxonomic name, and get varied results. That is why I said if you know what you are looking for. If you know what you are looking for, you will be able to seperate the results into relevant and not relevant ones. I'm not intentionally skewing results :P
Also, science is also not based on grainy bad quality pictures of headless snakes. In my opinion and I think are my disclaimers for when I'm wrong.
If you have a better idea of what it could be and have an accurate picture not from google, then post it and see if he thinks its a better match.
Also, we don't have mudsnakes where I'm from :-P so no I'm not speaking from experience, I'm just doing guess work
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